My grandmothers never bought me any video or computer games, going all the way back to the days of the Atari 2600.If anyone bought me a game, it was one of my parents.And to be honest, I don't see very many, if any, grandparent age looking people in most video game stores, nor in the game section in most super stores (ie. Walmart, Kmart, Target, or even Best Buy).Granted, I don't spend all day every day in these places, so I could be missing it. This is just personal experience though, and those vary person to person.Edited to clarify, this isn't a comment to anyone in particular, just to the "Grandma bought it" comment itself since I've heard it for years and always wondered where these mythical, game buying grandma's were at, lol.

Fuzzmatang wrote on May 18, 2010, 15:01:Never ceases to amaze me that people lap up Final Fantasy XIII and ignore real RPG's.

Even more amazing they still call it "Final" Fantasy. It's like the boy who cried wolf! "Okay I swear to god this is the final fantasy! I swear!" It's enough to make anyone do this

Well, technically, up until Final Fantasy X, each game was the final fantasy for that particular set of characters in that particular game world. At least from what I remember.Final Fantasy X2 was the first true sequel, followed by Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core, which was a prequel.

This isn't air, water, or food.I don't have to have it.It's free.Taken all together, that means I can wait until all the bugs are ironed out and then get it if I want to.Or I can not get it.

As a side note, I seem to remember several posts about how bad MW4 was, and some asking why bother to release it.A lot of complaints I've read here and elsewhere from people ranting and trying to get a bad, free game.

Dev wrote on Apr 10, 2010, 04:24:Also, this has been going on since march 23rd at least (thats the earliest report in forum of the transaction dates) and new charges have been added up through this week.

So apparently mythic has been asleep at the switch and letting this happen for TWO WEEKS. Seems it took a huge customer outcry for them to do anything, rather than keeping an eye on thier billing system.

Huge customer out cry?Do they still even HAVE enough customers to have a huge outcry?

To prove it to yourself simply type "steam failed to" into Google and then see all the suggestions which popup like "steam failed to connect" and "steam failed to contact key server". Then click on some of the links.

I've had one or maybe two instances of steam not launching a game due to a decryption error on purchase, but I have over 20 games on it so it doesn't bother me. Using google to prove a point though?Try typing "how to pimp slap" into google, and look at the results.Must be a lot of people out there who don't know how to pimp slap, eh?I'm sorry, but you can type just about anything you have a problem with into google and get a decent number of hits, especially with things more people are involved in or use.

I can easily see people attacking the servers.Maybe not to the degree that it's causing all the issues they are attributing to attacks, but still to some degree.And I'd bet most of the attacks are from the "It has DRM, so I won't bother with it" group, who again instead of actually having nothing to do with it either try to pirate it or attack the servers out of spite.Not that it matters to me, since I have NO plans to ever touch any of these games unless the DRM is removed.Even then, only PoP might get a purchase, on sale, with the DRM removed.

Players will eventually face off against the Borg Queen, the leader of the Collective, but the road to her lair is a very dangerous path.

and then 5 minutes later she will be reborn, the road will be rebuilt and everything will go back to exactly as it was before

AWESOME! and so very compelling

While there could be options besides this industry standard method of making MMORPG's, I'm guessing they'd be pretty difficult.Why?Well, the publisher puts in new content. Those players who seem to live in online games conquer it within a day or two of release, the content is done. Rather than reset, the creators of the game LEAVE it done, just like "real life" would be.Then what happens?No one else gets a shot at it, new content must be released, at which time . . .Lather, rinse, repeat, with the same group of people getting all the new content each patch.

One alternative I could mention is to do what EVE did. Just don't bother with content and let players pretty much make the game up as they go. Or, as I like to think of EVE, make an economic simulator and throw in some method for players to kill each other. Or do some repetitive, mind numbing activity.Heck, change the ships to armored, heavily armed players. Then change space into large, open FPS zones with vehicles.Viola! ADAM online!Throw out random stories, make some new guns, armor, and vehicles every once in a while, and give people the ability to go into mines and MINE things, and you've got a new hit game!Or did they already do this and call it Fallen Earth (which most people don't seem to care for)?

Also, the PC demo only features DX9 graphics and not the VISUAL QUALITY of the retail version.

I've seen the part about the demo only featuring DX9 graphics multiple times, and my question about that is: AND?I have yet to see anything in DX10 or DX11 that is all that much more impressive than what I've seen so far in DX9, so when someone uses that excuse for a demo it just don't cut it. Saying it has reduced visual quality due to lower res textures, that I could believe.But lesser quality due to DX9 only? Not so much belief there.

Star Trek's vision of the future isn't one full of ion cannons going off everywhere, people having all-out ground war and constant combat.

While this might be true, I have seen every episode of the original series, possibly all of TNG also, and you have to admit that there were a lot of fights in them. From TOS phaser battles, fist fights, and space ship battles to TNG's several space fights.Heck, the last 2 or 3 seasons of DS9 seemed like nothing much more than constant fighting. At least what I watched of them.Not defending the game, just saying that people seem to look back on ST with rose tinted lenses.

If you load up steam, be on the lookout for package deals. You might have to refresh the home page a few times to get the one you want to pop, but they have EVERY Telltale game available in a package deal for 49.99. That's both seasons of Sam and Max, the new Tales of Monkey Island, Strong Bad, Wallace and Gromit, and several others. Same with some other deals, like one with the new Batman game and several others for 49.99. Do not go directly to the package deals, if you do they show as 99.99, but keep refreshing the home page until the package deal you want shows. Then just click and enjoy the 49.99 price.*spelling errors, lol*